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Political economy and new maps of power in 2022

Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle's decision exemplifies how completely former President Donald Trump and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell broke the judicial selection process to place conservative ideologues in the federal judiciary.

A nod in the direction of a ceiling on CEO pay has just come from an unlikely source: the two finalists in the 2022 French presidential election.

It’s not at all unusual to feed prisoners animal-grade food to save money. It happens all across the country every single day.

States battle over abortion rights, and the Amazonization of work

With a new federal indictment, the United States is finally turning on a former political ally, acknowledging that Juan Orlando Hernández’s ran a narco state. What took so long?

How holding out for the common good led to the longest strike of 2021

Review of Maha Hilal’s “Innocent Until Proven Muslim." The author lays bare the War on Terror’s toll on constitutional rights and marginalized communities.

The strategic goal of "weakening Russia" is playing with fire—even nuclear fire—and to allow the war to go on indefinitely, or to escalate, at the expense of the Ukrainian people is cruel, dangerous, and unacceptable.